The State of Fedora: 2015 Edition (Fedora Magazine)

Fedora Magazine reports on Fedora project leader Matthew Miller's keynote at Flock, which is the Fedora contributor conference. He outlined the state of the distribution using some graphs and statistics and said "we're doing very well as a project and it's thanks to all of you". The use of Internet Relay Chat (IRC) by the project was another topic: "Fedorans do like to work together. Last year there were 1,066 IRC meetings (official meetings, not just being in IRC talking), and 765 IRC meetings in 2015 alone. 'This shows how vibrant we are, but also is buried in IRC. There's a lot of Fedora activity you don't see on the Fedora Web site" I want to look at ways to make that more visible,' says Miller.There are efforts to make the activity more visible, says Miller. 'If I want to interact with the project, is somebody there? Yes, but we have millions of dead pages on the wiki" we need to make this more visible.'IRC is 'definitely a measure of engagement' but it's also a high barrier of entry, says Miller. 'Wow that's complicated. Wow, that's still around?' is a common response from new contributors to IRC. The technology, and 'culture' can be confusing."